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Super performant, lightweight, fully customizable emoji picker 🚀

🚀 rn-emoji-keyboard

A lightweight, fully customizable emoji picker, written as React Native component (without native elements). Designated to be user and developer friendly! 💖

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🪄 Installation

yarn add rn-emoji-keyboard

or

npm install rn-emoji-keyboard

⚡️ Usage

import EmojiPicker from 'rn-emoji-keyboard';

export default function App() {
  const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = React.useState<boolean>(false);

  const handlePick = (emojiObject: EmojiType) => {
    console.log(emojiObject);
    /* example emojiObject = {
        "emoji": "❤️",
        "name": "red heart",
        "slug": "red_heart",
        "unicode_version": "0.6",
      }
    */
  };

  return (
    <EmojiPicker
      onEmojiSelected={handlePick}
      open={isOpen}
      onClose={() => setIsOpen(false)} />
  )
}

⚙️ Accepted props (current implemented)

Name Type Default Value Required Description
onEmojiSelected function undefined yes Callback on emoji selected
open boolean false yes Opens modal picker
onClose function undefined yes Request close modal runs when onEmojiSelected or backdrop pressed
emojiSize number 28 no Custom emoji size
enableRecentlyUsed boolean false no Enable recently used emojis in categories
categoryPosition 'floating' | 'top' | 'bottom' 'floating' no Specify category container position
enableSearchBar boolean false no Enable search bar
hideHeader boolean false no Hide category names
allowMultipleSelections boolean false no Allow selecting multiple emoji without dismissing keyboard
expandable boolean true no Show knob and enable expand on swipe up
defaultHeight number | string "40%" no Specify collapsed container height (number is points, string is a percentage of the screen height)
expandedHeight number | string "80%" no Specify expanded container height (number is points, string is a percentage of the screen height) works only if expandable is true
onCategoryChangeFailed function warn(info) no Callback on category change failed (info: {index, highestMeasuredFrameIndex, averageItemLength})
translation CategoryTranslation en no Translation object see translation section
disabledCategories CategoryTypes[] [] no Hide categories by passing their slugs
categoryOrder CategoryTypes[] [] no Set category sequence
onRequestClose function undefined no Handle onRequestClose in modal
disableSafeArea boolean false no Disable safe area inside modal
theme Theme defaultTheme no Custom colors theme
styles Styles defaultStyles no Custom styles

📊 Comparison

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🖼 Usage as static

import { EmojiKeyboard } from 'rn-emoji-keyboard';

// ...

<EmojiKeyboard onEmojiSelected={handlePick} />

Example about serving as static keyboard you can find here.

🎨 Theme

You can override color palette with custom colors using theme prop.

const defaultTheme: Theme = {
  backdrop: '#00000055',
  knob: '#ffffff',
  container: '#ffffff',
  header: '#00000099',
  category: {
    icon: '#000000',
    iconActive: '#005b96',
    container: '#e3dbcd',
    containerActive: '#ffffff',
  },
  search: {
    text: '#000000cc',
    placeholder: '#00000055',
    icon: '#00000055',
    background: '#00000011',
  },
}

📏 Styles

You can also override styles to almost every element using styles prop in the following format.

type Styles = {
  container: ViewStyle
  header: TextStyle
  knob: ViewStyle
  category: {
    container: ViewStyle
    icon: TextStyle
  }
  searchBar: {
    container: ViewStyle
    text: TextStyle
  }
}

🇺🇸 Internationalization

Pre-defined

Due to the limited translation possibilities, we only provide a few pre-defined translations into the following languages:

  • en - English 🇺🇸
  • pl - Polish 🇵🇱
  • fr - French 🇫🇷
  • it - Italian 🇮🇹
  • ko - Korean 🇰🇷
  • id - Indonesian 🇲🇨
  • es - Spanish 🇪🇸
  • de - German 🇩🇪
  • pt - Portuguese 🇧🇷
  • ua - Ukrainian 🇺🇦
  • ru - Russian 🇷🇺
  • vi - Vietnamese 🇻🇳

First import lang and use it as translation prop.

import { pl } from 'rn-emoji-keyboard';

// ...

translation={pl}

🏁 Own

There is possibility to pass own translation to library with the prop called translation like this

translation={{
  smileys_emotion: 'Smileys & Emotion',
  people_body: 'People & Body',
  animals_nature: 'Animals & Nature',
  food_drink: 'Food & Drink',
  travel_places: 'Travel & Places',
  activities: 'Activities',
  objects: 'Objects',
  symbols: 'Symbols',
  flags: 'Flags',
}}

If you have written a translation into your language, we strongly encourage you to create a Pull Request and add your language to the package, following the example of other langs.

🎉 Examples

You can clone the repo and run yarn example ios or yarn example android to preview app with this examples.

Basic

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Dark

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Translated

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Disabled Categories

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Static Modal (without knob)

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Static

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Recently used

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Categories Top

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Categories Bottom

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Search Bar

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⚖️ License

MIT

📝 Contribute

If you want to contribute read the CONTRIBUTING.md guide.